Flickr Image Tagging: Patterns Made Visible by Joan Beaudoin

Folksonomies!

We all tag so let's agree probably difficult find a pattern but our author has a plan...
 Two interconnected ideas in play
First look for underlying patterns or similarities..next  effectiveness of image tagging..which means a tag could cross intersections  to be anything...sounds very difficult when one thing fits into many.

Model evaluation
The evaluate and develop categories...ok can't agree on that ...could get a majority but not all to agree..but those open to interpretation caused problems..modification of categories of tags would improve the model's performance  ..user to choose best fit

Tag categories--how often used
Proofed preferences in tag categories used...yes, i would agree place name should be #1...that's how I usually id my own images no surprise..use of compound categories when the user decides a single tag will not serve their purpose.  Usage on some tag categories was nominal ..some showed significant usage such as, event tag...at a much lower usage were tags humor, poetic, number and emotion..

Problem of meaning
 We as librarians know this issue well..."in other cases the unknown tags illustrate how important contextual knowledge is to the categorization of the tags"..in addition foreign languages pose difficulty too.

Our individual differences
Various tags experienced highly individualized use.  Use of time tag  showed most variation among users that were studied..but since most image have a date stamp this might be redundant.

Flickr developments
  each improvement offers users a more vibrate tagging process...opportunity to strengthen natural language and greater accuracy in retrieval.

US
 Progress in image retrieval
clarify how personalized can be
tagging is here to stay so get with it...